AlwaysRightBoy:I am just amazed a dog can survive that fall and was able to walk around on the bottom. I'm guessing some ledges broke his fall, but still. That's a hell of a fall to be walking around afterwards.

Little dogs are lighter and don't fall as fast as say, a person or a bigger dog. Not a big stretch, really....

OregonVet:AlwaysRightBoy: I am just amazed a dog can survive that fall and was able to walk around on the bottom. I'm guessing some ledges broke his fall, but still. That's a hell of a fall to be walking around afterwards.

Little dogs are lighter and don't fall as fast as say, a person or a bigger dog. Not a big stretch, really....

I would think a hundred feet would probably not be stretch, but 700 feet and he was walking around? Amazing

OregonVet:AlwaysRightBoy: I am just amazed a dog can survive that fall and was able to walk around on the bottom. I'm guessing some ledges broke his fall, but still. That's a hell of a fall to be walking around afterwards.

Little dogs are lighter and don't fall as fast as say, a person or a bigger dog. Not a big stretch, really....

Also, he may have basically tumbled down a steep slope and ended up in water, which is probably the one of the best ways to fall 700 feet if you happen to have a choice.

OregonVet:AlwaysRightBoy: I am just amazed a dog can survive that fall and was able to walk around on the bottom. I'm guessing some ledges broke his fall, but still. That's a hell of a fall to be walking around afterwards.

Little dogs are lighter and don't fall as fast as say, a person or a bigger dog. Not a big stretch, really....

They fall just as fast, there just isn't as much mass to cause damage. But conversely, their skeletal structure isn't as strong, either, so it might be a wash.

Lsherm:OregonVet: AlwaysRightBoy: I am just amazed a dog can survive that fall and was able to walk around on the bottom. I'm guessing some ledges broke his fall, but still. That's a hell of a fall to be walking around afterwards.

Little dogs are lighter and don't fall as fast as say, a person or a bigger dog. Not a big stretch, really....

They fall just as fast, there just isn't as much mass to cause damage. But conversely, their skeletal structure isn't as strong, either, so it might be a wash.

That dog was lucky.

Usually though, as a rule of thumb, smaller animals have a stronger skeletal structure in relation to their mass. So while your gerbils spine may not be as strong as yours in total terms, it probably is in relation to his size.

700 feet is still a LONG way to go. I wonder at what point he would hit terminal velocity.

Jument:OregonVet: AlwaysRightBoy: I am just amazed a dog can survive that fall and was able to walk around on the bottom. I'm guessing some ledges broke his fall, but still. That's a hell of a fall to be walking around afterwards.

Little dogs are lighter and don't fall as fast as say, a person or a bigger dog. Not a big stretch, really....

Also, he may have basically tumbled down a steep slope and ended up in water, which is probably the one of the best ways to fall 700 feet if you happen to have a choice.

Lsherm:OregonVet: AlwaysRightBoy: I am just amazed a dog can survive that fall and was able to walk around on the bottom. I'm guessing some ledges broke his fall, but still. That's a hell of a fall to be walking around afterwards.

Little dogs are lighter and don't fall as fast as say, a person or a bigger dog. Not a big stretch, really....

They fall just as fast, there just isn't as much mass to cause damage. But conversely, their skeletal structure isn't as strong, either, so it might be a wash.

That dog was lucky.

No, they fall more slowly. Wind resistance is half shape and half frontal area. Mass goes up as roughly the square of frontal area.

Assuming that dogs all have the same shape, then a dog of twice the frontal area (therefore twice the wind resistance) will have 4x the mass, so it will have a higher terminal velocity.

Of course, I'm greatly simplifying things, but the key point is that when you go bigger, wind resistance doesn't go up as fast as gravity's love hug.

/The fall survivability threshold for mammals is somewhere between mouse and rat. This was on a fark thread recently, too.//Something padded the dog's impact, maybe an embankment of soft earth or bat guano or grass or something.

/The fall survivability threshold for mammals is somewhere between mouse and rat. This was on a fark thread recently, too.//Something padded the dog's impact, maybe an embankment of soft earth or bat guano or grass or something.

It was probably the pile of dead dogs that someone's been throwing into the hole

Lsherm:They fall just as fast, there just isn't as much mass to cause damage. But conversely, their skeletal structure isn't as strong, either, so it might be a wash.

Drag is proportional to area. Mass is proportional to volume. Terminal velocity is related to mass/drag. Generally the bigger something is the faster it's terminal velocity because as you scale things up mass increases faster than the frontal area.

Cats if they fall from high enough that they have time to get their feet under them, usually survive. One would assume the same for a dog. Also depends on the surface you hit at the bottom. Compressible surfaces are much more survivable than concrete or water.

Jument:OregonVet: AlwaysRightBoy: I am just amazed a dog can survive that fall and was able to walk around on the bottom. I'm guessing some ledges broke his fall, but still. That's a hell of a fall to be walking around afterwards.

Little dogs are lighter and don't fall as fast as say, a person or a bigger dog. Not a big stretch, really....

Also, he may have basically tumbled down a steep slope and ended up in water, which is probably the one of the best ways to fall 700 feet if you happen to have a choice.

Or just hit the water. Could he have dived at the right angle to prevent problems from the depth or resurfacing or injuries from hitting flat?